Mr. Ramchand Udharam Mohinani, Chairman of the Mohinani Group of Companies, was honoured with the lifetime Entrepreneur/Achievement Award at the 2nd Ghana Entrepreneur Awards and Dinner 2011, held at the State House on April 22nd, 2012.

The event, organized by the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Ghana in partnership with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and Delloitte and Touche, aimed at recognizing the

outstanding achievements of Ghanaian and resident foreign entrepreneurs who have excelled in developing successful businesses, employment generation, and contributing to the growth of the country’s economy.

Beside Mr. Mohinani picking up the ultimate award on the night, thirty entrepreneurs were also awarded for playing various roles in the development of Ghana’s economy through their entrepreneurial adventures.

Ramchand Udharam Mohinani is the founder and chairman of the Mohinani Group of Companies. Born in India, he moved to Ghana in 1957 with a few colleagues to establish a franchise for a trading entity in Ghana. He is married to his wife Sheela and blessed with three sons: Ashok, Anil, and Sunil.

He established a number of successful manufacturing companies in Ghana. These include Ghana’s first polyethylene factory in 1966, Poly Products Ghana Limited, the flagship of the Mohinani Group of Companies, to support the packaging and processing industry. In 1976, he established Poly Sacks (Ghana) Limited to produce polypropylene packaging for the agroprocessing industry. In the 1990s, he created two more factories that have become huge household names: Polytank (Ghana) Limited, and Poly Kraft (Ghana) which have an enormous portfolio of products including water tanks, PET, PVC bottles, and other multiple products meant for packaging a wide range of consumer goods, including fish, alcoholic beverages, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, processed foods, etc.

He diversified into the trade and distribution sector by establishing Somotex (1986), Somovision (1999), and Uniwell (1993). These units specialise in the distribution of consumer electronics, home appliances, tyres amongst others, with representation of key brands such as LG Electronics, Philips domestic appliances, etc.

He entered the real estate industry in 2005 with the establishment of South West Estates & Tourism (Ghana) Limited, and its first development is the Arabella Residency at Cantonments.

He went ahead to form Alliance Estates, a construction outfit established to have a foothold in the hospitality industry. They have started constructing a new hotel, Protea Hotel Select, in Takoradi, a four-star accommodation that, when completed, is expected to have 136 rooms and 12 two-bedroom apartments for short stays.

In 2010, the Group secured the franchise to run KFC restaurants in Ghana, and the first two restaurants opened at Oxford Street, Osu, and Melcom Plus in the North Industrial Area of Accra in 2011.

The Mohinani Group has extended its reach beyond the shores of Ghana with operations in London, Hong Kong, India, Kenya, Tanzania, etc. The diverse activities of these companies provide employment directly to over 2,000 people across the country and a global work force of over 3000 people.

The Group earlier won the National Good Corporate Citizen Award in recognition of its social responsibility, which includes a donation of $100,000.00 (one hundred thousand dollars) to the School of Health Sciences at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, scholarships, sponsorship of national social events, and proper plastic waste management advocacy.

Story: Lennox Amagyei-Antw

Accra: Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Mohinani Group has presented its annual support to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture towards this year’s National Farmers’ Day Celebrations.

The support which was in kind and valued at GHC 15,000 were made up of products produced by Poly Tanks Ghana Limited, the manufacturing arm of the Group.

The items included five (5) pieces of 2,000 litre water storage tanks (Poly Tank), seven (7) rolls of 25kg black sheetings and 1,000 pieces of 100kg polypropylene woven sacks. The others included 40 pieces of 25 litre gallons, 180 pieces of 25 kilo yam and 220 pieces of standard vegetable cartons.   

Presenting the items to the Agriculture Ministry, officials from the Group on behalf of Management congratulated all farmers for their tireless toils in feeding the nation and also making sure that there is enough food in stock throughout all seasons.

The items, they said were to assist the winners to add value to their produce by packaging them for the ready market. They noted that Mohinani has over the past 50 years contributed to the growth of Ghana’s agricultural sector by locally producing plastic and paper packaging products to preserve food quality, minimize wastage and enhance the marketability of agricultural produce in the local or global markets.

“As a trailblazer in the packaging industry in Ghana, Mohinani has continuously invested in the best and latest cutting technologies in manufacturing packaging products to improve the look, appeal and feel of agricultural products as well as cut down the country’s import bill on packaging products”, they emphasized.

Receiving the items, the Acting Chief Director of the Ministry, Mr. Robert Patrick Ankobiah expressed his appreciation to the Group for their kind gesture and always supporting the celebrations to reward the gallant farmers of the country.

He said although the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic threatened the celebrations this year but the Ministry was determined to go ahead and honour farmers in the country.

“This is because the COVID actually made us to appreciate the more what the farmers have been contributing because but for them the food security the country had especially on the on-set would not have been probably possible”, he said.

The Mohinani Group through its manufacturing subsidiaries have over the past decade offered its unflinching support to the national Farmers’ Day celebrations. Annually, the Group commits more than GHC 10,000 to this cause as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility to improve post-harvest loses and agricultural marketing in the country.